Desperation and fury (a sycamore tree, and a giant rat)
“I consider myself an artist,” says Tim Finnegan (Tom O’Leary) early in Corrib Theatre‘s most recent production The Smuggler. He’s also an out-of-work bartender, a [...]
A cry against forgetting
Enheduanna (Dre Slaman), a Sumerian high priest circa 2300 BC and first known author of the world, has returned and summoned women from around the globe to tell their stories of violence and [...]
The lost boys
Sometimes, on the way to reclaim oneself, it is necessary to unload. So, on the brink of his 2002 testimony in the Irish courts, where he charges Ireland with willful blindness, deafness and [...]
Eclipsed – bearing witness to the forgotten
Nellie-Nora (Jamie M. Rea) is the strong one. Cathy (Sasha Belle Neufeld) is a wee bit sick. Mandy (Dainichia Noreault) is a wee bit off. Brigit (Lucy Paschall) is a wee bit angry. Juliet (Wynee [...]
Four Last Things – a delicate, powerful story
Jane (Alexandria Casteele) is a beautiful young woman with nut-brown hair and the rosy cheeks of an Irish farm girl. She radiates goodness. She is home from college, but not just for the weekend. [...]
A quiet examination of a country divided
Two men walk into a bar. It’s Belfast, 2009. In the play Quietly by Owen McCafferty, now playing at Corrib Theatre, barkeep Robert (Murri Lazaroff-Babin), a young man from Poland, is [...]
Belfast Girls share hopes for a better life
Belfast Girls, Irish playwright Jaki McCarrick’s 2015 play about five young women aboard the Inchinnan, a ship bound for Australia, opened November 17–with high hopes on the [...]
The witching hour
Three names: John Biguenet, Vana O’Brien, Gemma Whelan. Throw them into the boiling pot, stir with eye of newt, and presto! It’s Broomstick, a tour de force one-woman show that runs [...]